Read more: State, Local, St. Jude, Children's Hospital, Quincy to Peoria
QUINCY, IL -- Runners put their feet to the pavement Friday afternoon for a cause.
They left the Quincy Mall parking lot for the 5th annual St. Jude Quincy-to-Peoria Run.
They'll trek 135 miles to Peoria.
About 60 runners are participating this year, including parents and relatives of former St. Jude patients along with a former St. Jude patient
They each raised at least 500-dollars for research and treatment at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and the midwest affiliate in Peoria.
KHQA spoke with a Liberty teenager who started receiving treatment for kidney cancer from St. Jude when he was 2 years old.
Now at the age of 16 and cancer-free, Spencer Waters says things would not have turned out as well had it not been for the children's research hospital.
This is Water's fifth year of running for St. Jude.
Most of it takes place on U.S. 24 and goes through Camp Point, Clayton, Mt. Sterling, Rushville and Astoria.
It takes more than one-point-two-million-dollars for St. Jude to operate for one day, and families are never charged for its services.
